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Bug 94773 - There is no "DLL Loader"
Summary: There is no "DLL Loader"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Gentoo Security Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: The Gentoo Linux Hardened Team
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardene...
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Reported: 2005-06-01 13:49 UTC by Adam Jackson
Modified: 2005-06-02 06:34 UTC (History)
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Description Adam Jackson 2005-06-01 13:49:21 UTC
The offending URL contains the following text:

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Use The DLL Loader

By compiling the X server with

Code Listing 2.2: Use dlopen() loader
#define MakeDllModules YES
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There's no reason to document anything about host.def in this section since the user won't be touching 
host.def directly.  And it's not called "DLL Loader" because it doesn't load DLLs; it's called dlloader 
because it's based on the system libdl.  Suggest rewording to look like:

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Use dlloader

Compiling the X server with the 'dlloader' USE flag set will make the server use a dlopen() based loader 
to handle [...]
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-01 15:19:57 UTC
Not for docs-team
Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-01 16:10:45 UTC
heh.. good catch. FIXED in CVS. Should hit the mirrors in about an hour or so.
Comment 3 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-02 06:34:47 UTC
Closing bug. Reopen if you see any more problems.
thanks.